Johannes, While I appreciate the effort, I wouldn't recommend you package it yet. The dependencies have changed in the last days and could change once again in the following days.
I can't reproduce the tcpdump issue, while w3af requires root for performing *some* actions, I almost never run w3af as root and everything works well. Could you send me more details on this? Regards, On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Johannes Weberhofer <jweberho...@weberhofer.at> wrote: > Dear all! > > I'm currently packaging the threading2 branch of w3af for opensuse, which > looks very promising for me. I have two questions: > > Running w3af as non-root user immediately ends with the following error: > "WARNING: Failed to execute tcpdump.". Tcpdump is located in the > /usr/sbin/tcpdump, as it only can be executed as root. Can w3af be executed > as non-root user, too or must it immediately finish when executed that way? > > > There are two files: > plugins/attack/db/sqlmap/extra/shellcodeexec/linux/shellcodeexec.x64 and > plugins/attack/db/sqlmap/extra/shellcodeexec/linux/shellcodeexec.x32. Can > those files be replaced by symlinks, too? Are both files required at runtime? > > Best regards, > Johannes > > -- > Johannes Weberhofer > Weberhofer GmbH, Austria, Vienna > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Master Java SE, Java EE, Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, JavaScript, jQuery > and much more. Keep your Java skills current with LearnJavaNow - > 200+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Java experts. > SALE $49.99 this month only -- learn more at: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122612 > _______________________________________________ > W3af-develop mailing list > W3af-develop@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/w3af-develop -- Andrés Riancho Project Leader at w3af - http://w3af.org/ Web Application Attack and Audit Framework Twitter: @w3af GPG: 0x93C344F3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122712 _______________________________________________ W3af-develop mailing list W3af-develop@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/w3af-develop